Senior Technical Programme Manager
What you will do:
Coordinate with internal stakeholders, including product managers, software engineers, analytics engineers, and data science as needed for the programs at hand.
Be accountable for the delivery of initiatives at hand and work with all dependent teams to ensure timely delivery of the programs.
Be the person unblocking the technical teams to ensure that the programs push forward in the right manner.
Regularly work with the PMs and EMs in the teams associated with to ensure:
- Roadmaps are up to date for reporting and reflect the current state of the initiatives.
- Dependencies are managed for programs that are cross-functional.
- Annual planning is supported as needed to align with the portfolio management team.
- Adoption and path towards team maturity within an Agile framework that optimizes the team’s velocity and self-organization.
Own the regular reporting against initiatives at a group level, including risk and dependency management.
Contribute to the trade-off conversations of the roadmap and the associated triage meetings to determine the priority of the backlog that the tech teams will be working on.
Work with the central platform team to help teams strive towards operational excellence.
Own and deliver cross-functional programs as needed covering:
- Program management aspects.
- Reporting.
- Architecture alignment.
- Stakeholder Management.
Work with the wider TPM community to enable cross-tech planning processes, prioritization, and dependency management.
Requirements:
- Interpersonal skills to build relationships and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders (technical and non-technical) across diverse geographically distributed teams.
- Ability to manage large-scale projects with dependencies and ensure progress.
- Ability to tailor communication and reporting in accordance with the needs and expectations of the audience.
- Ability to break down complex and ambiguous problems and translate them into clear technical requirements while also being able to articulate the value for non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and release management.
- Experience operating autonomously and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions with stakeholders in different disciplines.
Good to have:
- An understanding of the tech landscape across applications, infrastructure, security, and data would be an added advantage.
- Experience working as a project manager, programme manager, product owner, or scrum master will be highly relevant.
This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in our London office in Cannon Street. You will report into a Staff TPM.
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